Imelda O'Reilly
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Imelda O'Reilly is an award winning, independent Irish filmmaker with an International perspective and has a European passport. Her award winning short films and feature screenplay have been represented at over a hundred film festivals internationally, including Cannes International Film Festival, (Oscar-Qualifying) Rhode Island International Film Festival, Cinequest Creativity & Film Festival, DOC NYC and International Film Festival de Creteil. Imelda is a member of BAFTA-CONNECT, the European Film Academy and New York Women in Film and Television.
As a commissioned writer on Song For New York with Mabou Mines her work was developed through the Sundance Theater Lab and New York Theater Workshop. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Morocco where her film Bricks, Beds and Sheep's Heads was nominated for a Student Academy Award.
Imelda's short film Eggs and Soldiers was broadcast on RTE, Irelands leading television station, the film has screened at over 70 festivals across nine different countries to date. It won an Award of Excellence at the Broadcast Education Association, a Tonino Guerra Award for screenwriting from the Chicago Art-house Blow-Up Film Festival. In addition, it received awards from Accolade Competition, Global Shorts, Los Angeles and IndieFest Film Awards. Her award winning short film Tumbling Towards Home won a Director's Choice Award at the prestigious Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival in 2021. Her award winning short film titled Suspicious Minds just won Best Narrative Short, Best Female Director and Best Produced film at the Triloka International Film Fare Awards.
Her feature screenplay titled We're the Kids in America was an official selection for L'Atélier Cinéfondation, Cannes International Film Festival for 2018. The screenplay also received an Honorable Mention from the Stowe Story Labs and "Best Of" Competition from the Broadcast Education Association in 2019. It was also work shopped through the Moving Picture Institute Screenwriting Fellowship. It placed in the top 10% of the Nicholls Fellowship in 2019. Her feature screenplay Beneath the Boy's Cry was an Official Selection for Moonstone International in Leipzig and won Best of Festival at the Broadcast Education Association.
She graduated with an M.F.A. in film with honors from Columbia University. She has given Master Classes for University College Cork, Fordham University, Union College, SVA and St. Joseph's College. She has been a judge for the Next Reel International Film Festival, Asia Europe Short Film Contest, Sound of Silent Film Festival, Dusty Awards at School for Visual Arts, and a Judge for Inwood Screenplay Competition.
She is the Founder and Director of the JMU Filmmaking Short Summer Program. Her work has also screened at Aalto University, Fordham University, Hoboken Historical Museum and Vero Beach Museum. She is a member of Composer's Concordance in New York where she performs her poetry to music.
As a commissioned writer on Song For New York with Mabou Mines her work was developed through the Sundance Theater Lab and New York Theater Workshop. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Morocco where her film Bricks, Beds and Sheep's Heads was nominated for a Student Academy Award.
Imelda's short film Eggs and Soldiers was broadcast on RTE, Irelands leading television station, the film has screened at over 70 festivals across nine different countries to date. It won an Award of Excellence at the Broadcast Education Association, a Tonino Guerra Award for screenwriting from the Chicago Art-house Blow-Up Film Festival. In addition, it received awards from Accolade Competition, Global Shorts, Los Angeles and IndieFest Film Awards. Her award winning short film Tumbling Towards Home won a Director's Choice Award at the prestigious Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival in 2021. Her award winning short film titled Suspicious Minds just won Best Narrative Short, Best Female Director and Best Produced film at the Triloka International Film Fare Awards.
Her feature screenplay titled We're the Kids in America was an official selection for L'Atélier Cinéfondation, Cannes International Film Festival for 2018. The screenplay also received an Honorable Mention from the Stowe Story Labs and "Best Of" Competition from the Broadcast Education Association in 2019. It was also work shopped through the Moving Picture Institute Screenwriting Fellowship. It placed in the top 10% of the Nicholls Fellowship in 2019. Her feature screenplay Beneath the Boy's Cry was an Official Selection for Moonstone International in Leipzig and won Best of Festival at the Broadcast Education Association.
She graduated with an M.F.A. in film with honors from Columbia University. She has given Master Classes for University College Cork, Fordham University, Union College, SVA and St. Joseph's College. She has been a judge for the Next Reel International Film Festival, Asia Europe Short Film Contest, Sound of Silent Film Festival, Dusty Awards at School for Visual Arts, and a Judge for Inwood Screenplay Competition.
She is the Founder and Director of the JMU Filmmaking Short Summer Program. Her work has also screened at Aalto University, Fordham University, Hoboken Historical Museum and Vero Beach Museum. She is a member of Composer's Concordance in New York where she performs her poetry to music.
